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Investing in mental health and well-being: findings from the DataPrev project

McDaid, David; Park, A-La - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a …-income countries for investment in interventions to promote mental health and well-being. We focused on areas of interest to the … people. Economic evaluations had to have some focus on promotion of mental health and well-being and/or primary prevention of …

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Vertical transmission of overweight: evidence from English adoptees

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...

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The political economy of government responsiveness: theory and evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens is a key issue in political economy. Here we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems. Having a more informed an politically active electorate strengthens incentives for governments to be responsive. This...

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Analyzing the case for government intervention in a representative democracy

Besley, Timothy; Coate, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

The welfare economic method for analyzing the case for government intervention is often critized for ignoring the political determination of policies. The standard method of accounting for this critique studies the case for intervention under the constraint that the level of the instrument in...

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Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya

Miguel, Ted - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...

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Governance from below: a theory of local government with two empirical tests

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local government works. This paper proposes a theory of...

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Decentralization and local government in Bolivia : an overview from the bottom up

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results...

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Competition and incentives with motivated agents

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

A unifying theme in the literature on organizations such as public bureaucracies and private non-profits is the importance of missions, as opposed to profit, as an organizational goal. Such mission-oriented organizations are frequently staffed by motivated agents who subscribe to the mission....

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Estimating features of a distribution from binomial data

Lewbel, Arthur; Linton, Oliver; McFadden, D. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

A statistical problem that arises in several fields is that of estimating the features of an unknown distribution, which may be conditioned on covariates, using a sample of binomial observations on whether draws from this distribution exceed threshold levels set by experimental design....

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